nonmotile
IPA: nɑnmˈoʊtʌɫ
adjective
- Not motile.
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Examples of "nonmotile" in Sentences
- By contrast, cells also contain a single, nonmotile cilium known as the primary cilium.
- That was the only evidence of nonmotile predation occurring in their immediate vicinity.
- Many species exhibit oogamy, a type of anosogamy in which a flagellated sperm fertilizes a nonmotile egg.
- The connecting neck is actually a modified, nonmotile cilium, so it is suspected that supplies reach the OS by IFT.
- The fliD mutant strain was completely nonmotile, indicating that these abnormal flagella were functionally defective.
- For example, reproduction in the cryptomonads is asexual and primarily via longitudinal cell division with the cell dividing in either a free-swimming or nonmotile condition.
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